Friday Recap: The Birthday Edition

Huzzah, it’s Friday! And more importantly, it’s my Almost Birthday (tomorrow is the big day). Susan and Virginia have already spoiled me with bagels, coffee, balloons, lunch and a mystery present. Birthdays are delicious, aren’t they?

If you were wondering what to get me for my birthday, I want this. Actually, I’ll take two of them, please! And maybe a recording of today’s XKCD cartoon. [Boom de yada, boom de yada… sorry.]

Matt Cutts reviewed the Kitt-In Box and I just want to say I’m not buying his thumbs up. That must be a paid link because there’s no way Emmy voluntarily sat on that perch instead of on Matt’s face! Or am I the only one with psychotic cats who attached themselves to you and whatever you’re doing? I hate my cats.

Andrew R H Girdwood writes that all it takes is a little bit of success for the trolls to come out and start slinging mud. It’s worth a read, if only to remind yourself that as hard as it may be to take the high road when people sling mud your way, it’s always the best course.

Have you read Kevin Ryan’s Yahoo’s Suicide Pact with Google yet? If not, you should. Is there anything hotter than a smart guy who can write really well? I don’t think so.

Liana Evans is talking about ethics over at Search Marketing Gurus, and I’d recommend you head over to give it a read. It kills me that we have to define different “ethics” for different types of Digital marketing. That’s like making different versions of the 10 Commandments to fit your mood and help justify that affair you just had. [I’d make a Henry VIII joke but that’s nerdy even for me.–Susan] [blinks] Yeah, I have no idea what that even means.

And I guess congratulations are in order for Rebecca Kelley for finding a cheese and bacon baked potato in Canada completing a half Ironman. Well done, Becs. Way to make the rest of us look lazy. I walked up a flight of stairs to get to my office this morning. That’s almost the same, right?

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